American Century

Thursday

Oct 11, 2012 at 6:00 AMOct 15, 2012 at 9:21 AM

American Century Music will present a concert of chamber music from the 1960s at the Worcester Art Museum’s Renaissance Court at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 14. The concert coincides with the museum’s current “Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation” exhibition, a new show of iconic photographs mostly from the 1960s.

The program on Sunday will include David Diamond’s String Quartet No. 7, and Leon Kirchner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece of 1967, Quartet No. 3 for Strings and Electronic Tape. American Century Music, led by Scott Parkman, is a Boston-based organization dedicated to performing the works of 20th-century American composers and is involved with a wide array of musicians and institutions presenting repertoire ranging from solo instrument to full orchestra around the country.

The concert will be preceded at 5 p.m. with a tour of the “Kennedy to Kent State” exhibition with David Acton, the museum’s curator of prints, drawings and photographs. Tickets are $35; $25 for museum members. Advance reservations are required. www.worcesterart.org; (508) 799-4406, ext. 3111. (Richard Duckett)